Ebay bans Google Checkout

Martin — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:33:19 +0000

I find this rather interesting and thought I give you some insights. Google Checkout is a new google service similar to Ebays Paypal that you can use to send other people money over the net without a bank transaction between the two parties. Checkout went live a few days ago and Ebay was quick and reacted agressivly by not allowing their buyers and sellers to use Google Checkout as a method to close the transaction.

Ebay changed its Safe Policy this week adding Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay. Take a look at their updated policy to see for yourself that Google Checkout is among the payment services that are not accepted by Ebay.

My first thought was that Ebay was trying to prevent that a serious competitor would compete with Ebays own service Paypal. This could be but I found something that might give them at least a justification to ban Google Checkout for now.

Ebay uses several factors to determine wether a payment service will be permitted. One of those factors is “whether the payment service has a substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services (new services without such a track record generally cannot be promoted on eBay)”

Google has of course such a track record with Adwords and Google Video but of course not with Google Payment. This could mean that they will evaluate google checkout again at a later date and probably add it to their list of accepted payments services then.

I think that Ebay should leave it to its users how they finish the transaction. It´s none of Ebays business in my opinion to interfere.

What do you think ?

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